Ghana

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 5, 2015

Explosion at gas station in Ghana's capital Accra kills at least 100 people seeking shelter there from torrential rains flooding city. MORE

Feb. 1, 2015

Russell Shorto travel article shares journey with group of American descendants of former slave Venture Smith to Ghana on trip organized by Switzerland-based historical preservationist Chandler Saint; he hopes to install permanent exhibition in slave fort where Smith was held captive before being brought to America. MORE

Aug. 23, 2014

Ghana Health Service says cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others. MORE

Jul. 11, 2014

At least 200 people from Ghana who entered Brazil as tourists to watch World Cup soccer games are seeking asylum. MORE

Jun. 29, 2014

Ghana’s Pres John Mahama removes country’s minister of sports and his deputy in the wake of the country’s performance at the World Cup. MORE

Jun. 26, 2014

Ghana's national soccer team receives news that airplane is en route to deliver $3 million in appearance fees to players; team's discontent over lack of payment, which had been simmering for days, had led to a refusal to train and a threat to boycott match against Portugal until they were paid more than $3 million in appearance fees, to be divided among the 23 players. MORE

Apr. 19, 2014

New details emerge about American plane owned by Bank of Utah and mysteriously parked in Tehran's airport; document shows that plane has been leased by Ghanaian mining company owned by brother of Ghanaian Pres John Dramani Mahama. MORE

Mar. 20, 2014

Tokyo court orders the Justice Ministry to pay some $50,000 to the family of Abubakar Awadu Suraj, Ghanaian man who in 2010 was forcibly deported from Japan and suffocated in a plane seat. MORE

Nov. 17, 2013

Nana Kwaku Bonsam, well-known traditional fetish priest from Ghana who lived in Bronx for a year, will run for Parliament seat in Ghana in 2016; Bonsam was profiled in Metropolitan cover article in July. MORE

Sep. 24, 2013

Ghanaians mourn the death of Kofi Awoonor, poet, diplomat, statesman, scholar and cultural icon in the country; Awoonor was killed in the terrorist attack by Somali militants on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. MORE

Jun. 30, 2013

China's rural Shanglin County is hit hard as Ghana cracks down on gold mines run by peasants from county, many of whom had taken on enormous debt to fund business; residents of area feel betrayed by Chinese government, which encouraged mining ventures and then failed to provide support when things went wrong. MORE

Jun. 11, 2013

At least 169 Chinese gold miners in Ghana have been rounded up by the government, accused of sneaking into the country and overstaying visas to illegally mine one of Africa's richest gold fields; mass roundups, which are spurred on by popular resentment toward Chinese miners, are threatening Ghana's important economic relationship with China. MORE

Jun. 7, 2013

Authorities in Ghana conduct sweeping arrests of Chinese citizens in nation’s gold-mining regions, latest sign of tensions between sub-Saharan African nation and global power that has become continent’s largest trading partner; small-scale mining activities of Chinese who have flooded into Ghana’s gold-producing regions have stirred resentment in West African nation. MORE

Feb. 10, 2013

Op-Ed article by author Andrew Solomon details way in which his cordial acquaintance with Ghanian Pres John Dramani Mahama has stirred up controversy in Ghana because of fact that he is gay; expresses hope that Mahama will seize opportunity to take leadership role on LGBT rights in region. MORE

Nov. 8, 2012

Five-story shopping center collapses in suburb of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least one person and leaving several dozen people trapped in rubble. MORE

Oct. 30, 2012

Nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement receives $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to find ways to encourage women in Ghana, where infant mortality is high, to give birth in hospitals. MORE

Jul. 22, 2012

Drug Enforcement Administration has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana, and is planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya, as part of an effort to combat Latin American cartels that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe; aggressive response by the United States demonstrates its increased anti-drug focus as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have wound down. MORE

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